1) Eating out is damned expensive. Especially now that we have a 12% tax on restaurant meals.2) Figuring out the tip is always stressful.3) Cooking my own meals means I can control what to put in my food. Sometimes I want more meat, sometimes more vegetables, sometimes I don't want so much salt, sometimes I want more spice. Those are hard to control when you eat out.4) There is a sense of satisfaction when a recipe comes together to make something yummy.

Since I'm living alone, on a budget, and lazy, what I cook most are stews and soups. For a fast meal I'll do a variation of olive oil + garlic + tomatoes/other vegetables/sausage tossed with pasta (and good parmesan). Now that I'm not working I may start wrapping my own gyozas/dumplings as well (an afternoon of hard work but the payoff is immense---make a hundred or so, stick in the freezer, many meals of joy and happiness).

I really need a clean, comfortable kitchen to enjoy cooking, though. I don't do well with communal kitchens in dormitories or hostels. They just gross me out.

The downside to cooking is the washing up.

"Whatever you do, don't fall off the bridge! It'll be a pain to try to get back up again." - Private, DW 8

I don't consider myself able to cook ((it's just instant noodles and plain rice)) I'm terrified of frying stuff, but I would like to learn some simple recipes like pasta, soups etc. As Lady Wu mentioned, washing up is a downer.I'm not a morning person, which imo is primarily why I have not leant to cook!

"Knowledge is not as important as imagination. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world" - Albert Einstein
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years." -Abraham Lincoln

Also i love cooking.I like see a recipe and made in my own way normally much good but in some times not much people like.ahahaha is so funny cooking and eat what you did ... give a estrange emotion of satisfation.

I hear woman like man that cooking

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Knowledge is achieved with time, but Intelligence is born with it or without it. - Mestre Will